RECENT NEWS

09/28/2015: Finally, started the postdoc at Stanford University with Prof. Dan Jurafsky. Would also be working with Prof. Jennifer Eberhardt, Prof. Daniel McFarland and Prof. Jure Leskovec on a bunch of exciting projects.

09/02/2015: Deposited the final thesis: "Social Power in Interactions: Computational Analysis and Detection of Power Relations"

08/06/2015: Will be giving an invited talk at University of Edinburgh in the Informatics Forum.

07/15/2015: Done. Defended. Doctor.  

03/15/2015: Our demo --- gSPIN: a Google Chrome extension for power analytics on Gmail threads --- got accepted to be showcased at the Data on Mission Industry Summit at Columbia University's Data Science Institute! 

03/10/2015: Will be giving an invited talk at Goldman Sachs, New York on "Analyzing Email for Manifestations of Power" on 03/27/15.

03/10/2015: Will be giving a Guest lecture in COMS W6998 Computational Models of Social Meaning on 03/26/15.

02/06/2015: Will be giving an invited talk at Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing on "Social Power in INteractions (SPIN): Computational Analysis of Manifestations of Power"

10/10/2014: Officially ABD. Phew! Thesis proposal accepted (document) (slides)

07/23/2014: Two papers (one short and one long) accepted to be published at EMNLP 2014 to be held in Doha, Qatar. 

06/25/2014: ACL 2014 Best Short Paper Honorable Mention awarded to our paper on predicting power relations from email threads.

04/08/2014: Guest lecture, COMS W6998 Computational Models of Social Meaning.

11/19/2013: Invited Talk at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Computational Linguistics + NLP Lunch Seminar Series. "Manifestations of Social Power in Interactions"

11/07/2013: Research Talk Columbia NLP Talk Series. Title: "Manifestations of Social Power in Interactions"

10/04/2013: Guest Research Talk in COMS 1404 Emerging Scholars Program (ESP). Topic: "Understanding Language in Social Context"

05/07/2013: Will be in the Program Committee for the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 13), Hissar, Bulgaria, September 2013.

04/30/2013: Guest lecture in COMS W4771 Machine Learning. Topic: Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing

03/05/2013: Will be working this summer on IBM Watson (Jeapardy! challenge winning super computer) on relation extraction and negation detection.

01/25/2013: Will be part of the Program Committee for the "Semantic processing of non-propositional aspects of meaning" area of the *SEM 2013 conference.

07/13/2012: Chairing a session in the ACL 2012 workshop on Extra-propositional aspects of meaning in computational linguistics.